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Lutri, the Spellchaser was controversially (and correctly, in my opinion) banned from Commander on release as itd otherwise be an auto-include in any deck playing blue and red (almost any Commander deck fulfills the companion restriction, as this was clearly not designed for Commander)
Consider my situation: if I pay around $4000 monthly for rent, I would earn 48,000 points annually because of the BILT credit card
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